Radio Frequency Identification System and Tag

• US 20070222596A1
• Filed: 03/21/2006
• Published: 09/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: CHEP Technology Pty Limited (Brambles Limited)
• Original Assignee: CHEP USA
• Inventors: Cook, William, Sawhney, Puneet, Kleijn, Floris
• Application Number:
  US11/277,068
• Publication Number:
  US 20070222596A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/572.100
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0723 the record carrier comprising an arrangement for non-contact communication, e.g. wireless communication circuits on transponder cards, non-contact smart cards or RFIDs
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/0008 General problems related to the reading of electronic memory record carriers, independent of its reading method, e.g. power transfer

Abstract

A system and method are provided for associating a plurality of objects using a single RFID tag. The RFID tag includes a first page and a second page. An interrogator communicates with a server to interrogate the first page and the second page, wherein the first page and the second page include data that identifies objects to be tracked by the radio frequency identification tag and wherein the identified objects are associated based on a relationship between the first page and the second page.

Claims

1. A radio frequency identification system, comprising:

a radio frequency identification tag that includes a memory comprising;

a first page having a page size that is defined by a first predetermined number of bytes; and

a second page having a page size that is defined by a second predetermined number of bytes, wherein the first page and the second page include data that identifies objects to be tracked by the radio frequency identification tag;

a radio frequency identification interrogator that is configured to interrogate the radio frequency identification tag; and

a server that communicates with the radio frequency identification interrogator to interrogate the first page and the second page, wherein the identified objects are associated based on a relationship between the first page and the second page.

2. The radio frequency identification system according to claim 1, wherein the first page and the second page include Electronic Product Code™

compliant data.

3. The radio frequency identification system according to claim 1, wherein the first page and the second page include non-Electronic Product Code™

compliant data.

4. The radio frequency identification system according to claim 2, wherein the Electronic Product Code™

compliant data includes (i) Serial Shipping Container Code, (ii) Global Returnable Asset Identifier, (iii) Global Individual Asset Identifier, or any combination of (i) to (iii).

5. The radio frequency identification system according to claim 1, wherein the first page and the second page include a same page size and partition structure.

6. A radio frequency identification tag, comprising:

a memory comprising;

a first page having a page size that is defined by a first predetermined number of bytes; and

a second page having a page size that is defined by a second predetermined number of bytes, wherein the first page and the second page include data that identifies objects to be tracked by the radio frequency identification tag and wherein the identified objects are associated based on a relationship between the first page and the second page.

7. The radio frequency identification tag according to claim 6, wherein the first page and the second page include Electronic Product Code™

compliant data.

8. The radio frequency identification tag according to claim 6, wherein the first page and the second page include non-Electronic Product Code™

compliant data.

9. The radio frequency identification tag according to claim 7, wherein the Electronic Product Code™

compliant data includes (i) Serial Shipping Container Code, (ii) Global Returnable Asset Identifier, (iii) Global Individual Asset Identifier, or any combination of (i) to (iii).

10. The radio frequency identification tag according to claim 6, wherein the first page and the second page include a same page size and partition structure.

11. A method of associating two or more objects that travel in a supply chain, comprising:

placing a radio frequency identification tag on a first object, wherein the radio frequency identification tag includes a first page having a first page size and a second page having a second page size;

writing, on the first page, a first identifier that identifies the first object;

using the first object to transport a second object; and

writing, on a second page, a second identifier that identifies the second object.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the first page and the second page include Electronic Product Code™

compliant data.

13. The method according to claim 11, wherein the first page and the second page include non-Electronic Product Code™

compliant data.

14. The method according to claim 12, wherein the Electronic Product Code™

compliant data includes (i) Serial Shipping Container Code, (ii) Global Returnable Asset Identifier, (iii) Global Individual Asset Identifier, or any combination of (i) to (iii).

15. The method according to claim 11, wherein the first page size and the second page size include a same byte size.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein the first page and the second page include a same partition structure.

17. A method of configuring a memory for a radio frequency identification tag, comprising:

dividing the memory into a predetermined number of pages;

generating a first page that includes a first page size;

generating a second page that includes a second page size;

writing first data into the first page;

writing second data into the second page, wherein the first data and the second data identify objects to be tracked by the radio frequency identification tag, and wherein the identified objects are associated based on a relationship between the first page and the second page.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein the first page and the second page include Electronic Product Code™

compliant data.

19. The method according to claim 17, , wherein the first page and the second page include non-Electronic Product Code™

compliant data.

20. The method according to claim 17, wherein the first page size and the second page size include a same byte size.